For the love of smooth coat curly's

If you have been wondering how to get your smooth coat ready for presentation we will help you out.

First thing. The main is usually the most challenging thing on this type of horse. The main should be trimmed to a even length while being kept free of debris. Do not go crazy with this because you want your Curly to look as natural as possible. Also another item is to clip the insides of the ears, face, feltlocks and chin.

Now lets get to the specifics.

Make sure when trimming to follow the lines of the legs and to make the fetlock and below completely clear. When doing this you also want to make sure to clip the hoof line there is always a lot of hair there and you want the horse to look as clean as possible.

After being done with this you need to wash the horse. I always use maine tail, it works the best with my horses and makes there coat very shine but I alternate it between that and a purple shampoo like “bright white”. Reason being is that when using the purple shampoo it makes white coats bright but be careful. Do not use it twice in a row if you do the hair color will start to turn blue.

Another product I use for coats is proclaim anti-glossing polish. It is great for their main and it does not attract dirt and does not dry out the hair.

Now we get to the hoofs.I always use hoof-fat which is a green paste that make their hoofs shiny and prevents other hoof problems, but only do this when showing your horse on a solid hard surface as concrete or asphalt. If you use it and show your horse on something as barkdust or sand the “hoof-fat” is sticky and will grab all of the barkdust and sand.

Below is an image of me and my horse. The outfit is from http://yogaworkout.online. They were nice enough to let me use the outfit for this photoshoot. Once again thank you!

The American Bashkir Curly Horse is a hardy breed with a wide variety of curly coat types that range from a crushed velvet effect to a perfect Marcel wave; or from extremely tight ringlets to long spiral curls; or to no apparent curl at all. The latter coat type is called a Smooth-Coated Curly and may or may not produce Curly horses themselves. The breed’s name was inspired from a photo of a curly coated Bashkir horse from Russia that was printed in the 1938 March issue of the Nature magazine entitled “The Evolution of the Horses“.

In this unique breed, there are dominant and recessive curly genes and either of these makes it possible to get curly-coated foals to show up in normally straight-coated breeds – from pony to draft horse. Oddly, the curly coated foals, whether from the dominant or the recessive version of gene, all seem to carry most of the same basic traits and many of these traits do not fit the norm for other breeds. Some Missouri Foxtrotters carry a dominant Curly gene through the lineage of Curly Jim and the breed also carries the recessive curly gene. Percherons also carry the recessive gene. The American Bashkir Curly transmits this curly characteristic to its offspring about fifty percent of the time even when mated to horses without the curly coat. A horse that is homozygous for the dominant version of the curly gene does not appear to have any undesirable effects.

What is known is that curly horses have been depicted in art and statuary in early China as far back as 161 AD and there has been evidence of their presence in South America and Europe. The earliest recorded Curly Horses in North America were with Native Americans during the Winter Count of 1801-1802. The Sioux had stolen some Curly horses from the Crow which placed these tribes at the Standing Rock Cheyenne River Reservation at the mouth of the Grand River. A significant location of Curly Horses today has been traced to Indian Reservations in the Dakotas and many Curlies have been acquired from the wild American Mustang herds. They have been domesticated, bred and raised by ranchers throughout the U.S. and Canada.

One theory for how curly horses ended up roaming with the mustangs is that Russian Bashkir Curly horses came with Russian colonists during the 1700’s, but research that included counsels with Russian researchers, the Moscow Zoo and the Soviet Union’s Ministry of Agriculture has discovered that there were no wavy haired steeds from the Bashkir district and no evidence of the quality beginning in Russian Bashkir stallions. Another hypothesis is that precursors of the Curly Horse crossed the area span amid the last Ice Age; however there is no fossil proof to backing that until reintroduction of stallions to this half of the globe by the Spanish. However another hypothesis is that the quality originated from the Lokai steeds of the Tajikistan district of Russia which now and then show the wavy coat, yet there was no notice of importation of stallions in boats’ logs when the Russian pilgrims touched base in North America. A few different speculations have neglected to be demonstrated or essentially stay untested.

Luckily, more is thought about the present day American Bashkir Curly Horse which goes back to 1898, when Peter Damele and his dad were out riding in the remote Peter Hanson Mountains in the high nation of Central Nevada close Austin. Dwindle saw 3 stallions with tight wavy ringlets over their whole bodies and it captivated them both. From that day forward, there were constantly wavy covered stallions on the Damele reach and a hefty portion of the Bashkir Curly Horses in the U.S. can be followed back to that Damele group.

Numerous Curlies with white legs have dark hooves that are surprisingly extreme and hard and superbly round fit as a fiddle and numerous Curlies are not shod. They additionally have strong roundbone guns; straight legs that likewise move straight and level knees. They have an observably short back of five lumbar vertebrae and a round backside without a wrinkle or dimple. They appear to have an incredibly high convergence of red platelets.

The foals are conceived with thick, crimped coats, twists inside their ears and long up-twisted eyelashes. They are conceived with a strangely warm air and demand being well disposed. They savor the experience of human friendship and adoration to be conversed with. Whenever energized or at play, the foals jog with their tails totally straight noticeable all around.

The American Bashkir Curly coat is considered hypo-allergenic to individuals who are adversely affected by stallions, yet the motivation behind why is still under study. It might be on the grounds that the Curly Horse’s hair is different or that the proteins in their skin are different. It has been demonstrated that level hair is wavy, yet the Bashkir Curly’s hairs are round. They are likewise pointed or feathered underneath a microscope and can be spun and woven into yarn. The hair is all the more firmly identified with mohair, than to horsehair.

One particularly odd element of the breed is the way that they can totally shed out the mane and tail hair every mid-year, alongside their body coat and their late spring coat is wavy or genuinely straight on their bodies, with the unmistakable and more maintained wavy winter coat returning in late fall. They have a twofold mane which divides into halves leaving wavy ringlets holding tight both sides of the neck. Strangely, the ears don’t completely shed out in the late spring.

Many traits have been found that links them to primitive horses, such as some have no ergots and others have small soft chestnuts. They have wide-set eyes that have a slant that is characteristic of the Oriental breeds and that gives them a wider range of peripheral vision. These eyes also give them a sleepy expression that is deceiving since they are very alert.

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